McCain had asked to finish the Senate floor consideration of the defense bill soon, so he could return to Arizona
for treatment for the brain cancer diagnosed a week ago.
In efforts to develop
new treatments for brain cancer, scientists from Johns Hopkins Drug Discovery and the Kimmel Cancer Center's Bloomberg ~ Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy report they have altered the structure of an experimental drug that seems to enhance its ability to slip through the mostly impermeable blood - brain barrier.
«Funding research focused on helping patients survive longer is critical, and studies such as this advance our goal of not only
improving treatments for brain cancer, but eventually finding a cure.»
That automation is a clear selling point for Matthew De Silva, whose company, Notable Labs, is trying to devise
personalized treatments for brain cancer by testing combinations of thousands of Food and Drug Administration — approved drugs against each individual patient's tumor cells.
When they didn't get significant results, that failure was effectively the end of RMP - 7 as
a treatment for brain cancer.
In summary, the ketogenic diet does appear to be useful adjuvant to
treatment for brain cancer.